Tag: Learning and Growth
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Capitalise on the energy of big ideas
So the trick is, when you have the idea, capture it. Don’t lose it. Carry a notebook, keep a digital notebook on your phone, or even talk about it with someone nearby—anything to not let that precious idea slip away.
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Opportunities opening up
Do you ever notice how opportunities seem to open up just when you need them? We feel down and the future looks bleak. We loose sleep worrying about some existential threat which may or may not happen. How will we get out of this one? Next thing a solution seems to appear before our eyes.…
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To stay or go
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” J.P. Morgan Have you decided yet? We often get caught straddled between two places. Neither here nor there. No meaningful progress and time keeps slipping by. It can be scary to face up to change. So…
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What are you choosing?
“Your actions reveal not what you want, but what you choose.” – Shane Parrish
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Safe or successful
We all want to be safe. We would also like to be successful. If we play it too safe, we may miss out on any meaningful success.
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Just start
“Motivation often comes after starting, not before. Action produces momentum.” – James Clear
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On having it all figured out
I will have it all figured out when I am 25. I will have it all figured out when I am 30. I will have it all figured out when I am 35.
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All decisions lead to… here
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen R. Covey Look at where you are today. This place is the culmination of many decisions.
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More fears and self-doubt
So, you have decided to make the change, great! But then comes a surge of new fears and self-doubt.
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Caught in the past and future
“If you’re not mindful, you might spend much of your day feeling like you’re fleeing a burning building or swimming to dry land after a shipwreck.” Sam Harris We spend much of our time thinking about the past and future. We can’t change what happened in the past, although we can learn from it. And…